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KIAF for ALICE Experiment. Sun Kun OH ( Konkuk University) 16 November 2012 ATHIC2012 (Grand Hotel, Busan ). Flow Chart. 1. GSDC 2. KIAF for ALICE 3. Prospect. 1. GSDC.
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KIAF for ALICE Experiment Sun Kun OH (Konkuk University) 16 November 2012 ATHIC2012 (Grand Hotel, Busan)
Flow Chart • 1. GSDC • 2. KIAF for ALICE • 3. Prospect
1. GSDC • GSDC is devoted to support computing facilities for high-energy physics experiments, including ALICE, STAR, Belle/Belle2, and CDF (before 2009), and other fields such as earth science, astrophysics, bio-informatics, etc. (after 2009)
Magnetic tapes availability Nov Jan
2. KIAF for ALICE • ALICE Tier-1 since 2012 • ALICE Tier-2 since 2008 • KIAF (KISTI Analysis Facility) since 2011
KIAF in brief • Established within GSDC • 96 work nodes and 170 TB of disk space • ALICE users via PROOF package in ROOT • root[0] TProof::Open(“<user-id>@kiaf.sdfarm.kr”) • Bug/Error report to: alice-analysis-operations@cern.ch • Current ROOT version: v5-34-02-1
KIAF performance in 2012 Monthly bytes read More than 150TB read Summer Vacation QM2012 post-QM More than 600 connections Monthly Connections
AAF PROOF clusters • Total 5 AAFs are running for ALICE: CAF, JRAF, KIAF, SAF, and SKAF • Operation by local administrators supported by CERN AAF team (Latchezar, Arsen and Martin)
4. Prospect • Cooperation with Hiroshima University • KIAF workshop • Grid and Cluster Computing School • LHC community conference
Cooperation with Hiroshima Univ. • Hiroshima University, Japan, has Tier-2 center for ALICE • The collaborative cooperation between GSDC and Hiroshima University, sharing experience, human resources, and future prospect is desirable and on-going. • Visiting Hiroshima University by Korean students will be staged in December. • There will be an exchange of the memorandum of understanding between the two institutions.
KIAF workshop • GSDC would like to organize a workshop • By hosting Asian community • In order to: • help recognize KIAF • support development of human resources for ALICE in Asian region • serve as a community hub
Grid & cluster computing school • GSDC would like to organize a regional pilot programme • for Grid and cluster computing school • by benchmarking • GridKA School • CERN school of Computing
LHC community conference • The LHC is located in the European continent, and the people at the LHC are mostly non-Asian. • Nevertheless, the high energy physicists in the Asia/Pacific region are quite well qualified, motivated, and interested in the physics that may be discovered at the LHC. • In fact, a lot of physicists of Asia/Pacific origin are actively working at the LHC in one way or another. • And it is true that much more people are eager to participate in the LHC physics and contribute to our understanding of the Universe and the world we are living in.